Setting out from this ensemble--and transformed in the process into a character lifted from a Robbe-Grillet novel--one could bring together a few threads of the fable in which one found oneself dropped, as it were (provided of course that the viewer was willing to play along, which meant accepting the fact that the puzzle would remain obstinately full of holes and the enterprise of elucidation doomed from the start).

As an advanced exercise to illustrate the effect of variations in critical method, students might then be encouraged to assess the implications for the concept of containment of Leah Marcus's refreshingly explicit revision of her approach to Bartholomew Fair by reading her earlier criticism on the play along with her present essay.

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